? One of Munro’s trademarks is her ambivalent presentation of characters. Choose three characters from the novel and show how they support this claim. Whenever I find myself thinking about the years I spent in junior high and high school the memory of my grade eight-math class stands out. Math was never my favorite subject; therefore, I never really enjoyed math class. I remember clearly the first day I set my foot in my grade …showed first 75 words of 1342 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1342 total…that was analyzed as a very generous and charitable person in the novel, however he was also a person with a dull and corrupt past. Uncle Benny on the other hand was a kind and caring person but very limited. The third character was Naomi who was a good and true friend, while at the same time she was fully capable of being manipulator. The above characters illustrate Alice Munro’s portrayal of ambivalent characters.